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Cohesity Alta SaaS Protection Administrator's Guide

Gain insights into storage savings after deduplication and compression

The Storage tab on the System page provides details on the size of data after compressions and deduplication.

Navigate to the System page:
  1. Access Administration portal.
  2. On the home page, click System.
  3. On the left, click Storage.

Use the following procedure to navigate:

Common features across charts:

The following features are common across most of the charts on this tab:

  • Item size and Item count toggle option: Each chart includes an option to switch views between size-based and item count-based details.

  • Zoom in and out: You can interact with line and bar charts by clicking within the chart and using the mouse scroll wheel to zoom in and out.

  • Details on hover: You can hover over any pie chart to view statistics as percentages and verify the timestamp for the last update.

  • Scope/Stor selection: To get the details, select the required option from the Scope dropdown list. You can either select the All content option to view details for all Stors or select specific Stors to view details related only to those Stors.

Statistics on the compressed data:

The following details are displayed for the selected Stors:

Always see the last updated timestamp. If multiple Stors are displayed, the most recent update time is displayed.

Table:

Options/Sections

Description

Original size

Displays the total size of the data, reflecting the raw data stored in blobs without deduplication and compression.

Storage savings

Displays the details about the data size after deduplication and compression, as well as the amount of storage saved.

These statistics are updated hourly during storage maintenance jobs.

Stor Usage chart

A bar chart represents the original, post-deduplication, and post-deduplication & compression sizes for each Stor.

These statistics are updated hourly during Stor maintenance jobs.

Storage history chart

A line chart that represents the storage usage over time, providing insights into storage utilization. It highlights trends such as growth, stability, or reduction in usage.

To analyze storage efficiency and optimization, you can toggle between views like Original size, After deduplication, and After deduplication & compression.

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